Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue eats lunch Monday with students at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Va., where he announced a partial rollback of Obama administration nutrition rules for school lunches. Carolyn KasterThe Associated Press

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue eats lunch Monday with students at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Va., where he announced a partial rollback of Obama administration nutrition rules for school lunches. Carolyn KasterThe Associated Press

Team Trump wants to make school lunches great again. It’ll make kids fatter instead

Who are you going to trust on school lunch nutrition – former first lady Michelle Obama or our new fast-food-loving president and an agribusiness owner?

Duh.

The standards that Obama pushed as part of her “Let’s Move” campaign have been good for the health of America’s schoolchildren. Starting in 2012, the rules required schools to serve more fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains and limited salty, sugary and fatty foods.

The big argument of Perdue and Roberts is that kids won’t eat the more nutritious food, and it’s being thrown out. Sure, healthy items need to more appetizing, but by that logic, we should just give kids burgers and fries every day.

Perdue and Roberts also say the Obama rules are too restrictive and costly for school districts. Congress, however, has already allowed states to apply for waivers if they can’t meet standards. And we have to consider the higher health care costs that are sure to come from unhealthy lunches. Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest public school district, has already said it plans to stick with the healthier menu.

Donald Trump is signing one executive order after another to erase Barack Obama’s legacy, especially regulations to protect the environment and workers. Now, it seems his administration is going after Michelle Obama’s achievements as well, even if the health of America’s kids gets worse as a result.